Re:The skyline problem
by michaelmior on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:16PM
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I'm not sure what you mean by the pyramid-shaped configuration. In any case, n queries taking log(n) + n time each is O(n log n). I think you're right that a range tree should work fine.
Re:The skyline problem
by brianpgordon on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:26PM
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I mean this thing from the article:
https://briangordon.github.io/images/worstcase.svg
> n queries taking log(n) + n time each is O(n log n)
No, it's O(n^2).
Re:The skyline problem
by michaelmior on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:29PM
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Wow, clearly commenting too late. Of course you're right :)
Also, something interesting to note that I was thinking about yesterday is that you don't actually need to use an interval tree for this. You can use a range tree instead, which is simpler (to my mind). You only need an interval tree to do a certain kind of query which we never need to do:
https://briangordon.github.io/images/range-interval.png